... by playing on petty chauvinism and fears that they will be dominated by a group which is actually quite similar to themselves,

Exactly , that is the "beauty" of that deception. On one hand this situation push ukrainian nationalists into chauvinism while pro-russian part of the country push toward the Left. Both tendencies are very bad for true nationalism. They are using them one against another.
The oldest trick in the book.

Really?! Could you post a link where it says Russia got assistance of the Mongols at any point in time, history, battles, wars, or any of the sort?

Perhaps you mean the Tatars, or the Cossacks who fought against the Ottomans(Turks) and the Lithuanian/Polish league?
BTW, the Lithuanian/Polish invaders settled thousands into Ukraine, which is why a large part of Western Ukraine has Catholics and speak Polish.

Also, why is Poland Catholic and uses Latin instead of being Orthodox and use Cyrillic like Russia or Bulgaria?

At the time, Ukraine was the Kievan Rus, the mother of both Russia and Ukraine. However, towards the late 1100's and early 1200's, infighting weakened the Kievan Rus to the point it was fractured into warring factions. All the while, the Russians and the Mongols too, along with the Poles and Lithuania became or were becoming a dire threat to them. Russia then invaded witb Mongol troops and overran it, and took it over. Of course, that came before Poland and Lithuania's own invasions of Ukraine. The Mongols of course came back and then decimated Russian and Ukrainian cities repeatedly. That was why Ukraine came under Polish and Lithuanian control. Later in the 1600's, Russia invaded again, crushing Cossack independence forever to this day. Ever since then, they pledged their fealty to Moscow, and some Cossack tribes were forced to move to Russia.

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Really?! Could you post a link where it says Russia got assistance of the Mongols at any point in time, history, battles, wars, or any of the sort?

Perhaps you mean the Tatars, or the Cossacks who fought against the Ottomans(Turks) and the Lithuanian/Polish league?
BTW, the Lithuanian/Polish invaders settled thousands into Ukraine, which is why a large part of Western Ukraine has Catholics and speak Polish.

Also, why is Poland Catholic and uses Latin instead of being Orthodox and use Cyrillic like Russia or Bulgaria?

Cossacks are essentially Ukrainians.

Poland became a Catholic & Latin script using nation when Polish Mieszko I in 966 had been baptized to Catholicism.

The next step was the baptism of Mieszko. There are different hypotheses concerning this event. Most often it is assumed that it was a political decision, intended to bring Mieszko's state closer to the Czechs and to facilitate his activities in the Polabian Slavs area. At the same time, the baptism decreased the likelihood of future attacks by German margraves and deprived them of the opportunity to attempt Christianization of Mieszko's lands by force. An additional reason could be Mieszko's desire to remove from power the influential pagan priest class, who may have been blocking his efforts to establish a more centralized rule.[22]
A different hypothesis is linked with the above-mentioned acceptance of the veracity of Gero's invasion of Poland. According to it, it was the attack of the Margrave that forced the Christianization, which was to be an act of subordination to the Emperor, done without the mediation of the Pope.[23]
Still other motives were responsible according to Gallus Anonymus, who claimed that it was the Bohemian Princess Dobrawa who convinced her husband to change his religion. Likewise chronicler Thietmar attributes Mieszko's conversion to Dobrawa's influence. There are no reasons to negate Dobrawa's role in Mieszko's acceptance of Christianity; however crediting rulers' wives with positive influence over their husbands' actions was a common convention at that time.

the Russians and the Mongols too, along with the Poles and Lithuania became or were becoming a dire threat to them. Russia then invaded witb Mongol troops and overran it, and took it over. Of course, that came before Poland and Lithuania's own invasions of Ukraine. The Mongols of course came back and then decimated Russian and Ukrainian cities repeatedly. That was why Ukraine came under Polish and Lithuanian control. Later in the 1600's, Russia invaded again, crushing Cossack independence forever to this day. Ever since then, they pledged their fealty to Moscow, and some Cossack tribes were forced to move to Russia.

The Mongol Golden Horde had occupied Ukraine!

While the Mongols raided Poland & Lithuania out of the region of Ukraine.

The Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth base had fought Mongols in the region of Ukraine!

This is how the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth came to have land in Ukraine on the defensive against Mongols!

As an EU citizen I disagree with everyone here. I think it would be positive if Ukraine joined EU. All of the sudden, we have 45 million new citizens, many of whom hold far-rightist views. We would benefit much.
I don't know why you like Russia so much, but in my opinion it isn't much better than America.
I'd love to have Ukraine in EU, as Europe is turning to far-right in recent years and Ukraine people are very tradiotional.
We are mostly benefiting from changes, thus we should be looking forward to changes.

Joining an old European geopolitical and ideological project would have been catastrophic for the Ukrainian economy, political expert John Laughland told RT, noting that it was actually the EU, not Russia, blackmailing Ukraine into signing a suicide note.

It even appears that the so-called nationalists were in favor of this? Something about not wanting to cozy up to Russia. I think Ukraine needs a nationalist party like the Slavic Union so that voters could vote for a party that doesn't seek to join the EU and is Nationalist.

As an EU citizen I disagree with everyone here. I think it would be positive if Ukraine joined EU. All of the sudden, we have 45 million new citizens, many of whom hold far-rightist views. We would benefit much.
I don't know why you like Russia so much, but in my opinion it isn't much better than America.
I'd love to have Ukraine in EU, as Europe is turning to far-right in recent years and Ukraine people are very tradiotional.
We are mostly benefiting from changes, thus we should be looking forward to changes.

You are right.

One good thing about the EU is that it has limited so there are no more white on white brothers wars.

Russia is not in the EU but is more multicultural than even the worst EU nations like France.

I mean there are about as many Muslims in Moscow alone as all of the U.K!

One good thing about the EU is that it has limited so there are no more white on white brothers wars.

Russia is not in the EU but is more multicultural than even the worst EU nations like France.

I mean there are about as many Muslims in Moscow alone as all of the U.K!

I think the main problem of EU is the damn communists like José Manuel Barroso and others who want to build Federal Union or EUSSR with their decadent minds. If EU would return mostly to economic union, it wouldn't be problematic. Like you said, it is stopping war between Europeans which is good and free market of products is also not bad.